MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...

Yes and no. We focus on MDPI-Frontiers because if you drew a random SI you'd have a 70%+ chance of it being from them. But we also highlight that across all SIs at BMC, Springer, Roy Soc there's *similar* amounts of PISS. Delegating trust to guest editors has costs & should be done responsibly.

One of the "exciting" things about GPU development is all the funny quirks that hardware vendors come up with that keep life interesting. Wrt. OpenCL support AMD is the most compliant and predictable; NVIDIA is mostly OK but a bit odd sometimes; Intel lacks useful things for science like FP64.

Swiss Breeding Bird Monitoring dataset is now openly accessible! The team from @vogelwarte.bsky.social made the long-term dataset of the Swiss CBM program (“Monitoring Häufige Brutvögel”, MHB) freely available under CC-BY 4.0 licence. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The banality of evil.

Attending #CellBio2025? Have questions about publishing with Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social or our Fast & Fair peer review initiative? Meet Editor-in-Chief @danielgorelick.bsky.social on Tuesday, 9 December, 12:00 -13:00 pm at booth 1232.

The licence you put on your work needs to sustain your ability to continue it. Otherwise it's self-defeating and you'll be taken advantage of.

Final pdf is out! journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Do you have 2D-to-3D image registration challenges? Let me know about them here forum.image.sc/t/toward-bet...

📢 New release! This one makes BoneJ's GPU-accelerated extensions easier to access from Python by using ImageJ2 / scijava-style wrappers. Just let the Fiji updater run and grab a voucher from bonej.org/shop

BIOIMAGE ANALYSTS ASSEMBLE!!! #CBIAS2025

Looking forward to catch up with @cbias.bsky.social next week, and reconnect with the old London crew. See you there! tidal.com/playlist/d9d...

We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji. It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:

We're pleased to announce that our latest release of new and updated UK Biobank data is now available to approved researchers around the world ✅

Python notebook from a two year old paper: Oh, no, I cannot run, there is a slight mismatch of a logging library. ImageJ plugin from 2001 running on Quantum Java 51 in 2078: Your 100 petabyte temporal hologram was successfully thresholded.

When you think of bats, you probably don’t think of pollination - but bats are crucial pollinators, and the key to creating a certain drink! 🍸 See an (adorable) bat covered in pollen and learn why a world without bats would be a world without tequila in this week’s Surprising Science. 🦇

Philippe Taquet, chasseur de dinosaures et ancien directeur du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, est mort

Remember that survey about how we can sustain napari development? We extended the deadline until the 16th, AoE! Blog post: napari.org/island-dispa... Survey: napari.typeform.com/sustainability If you use napari at all we would be super grateful if you filled it in! 🙏

We’re switching our eight subscription journals to a #SubscribetoOpen model for 2026. Royal Society Publishing Director, Rod Cookson, explains why and how. royalsociety.org/blog/2025/11... #OpenAccess #S2O

À propos de - absolutely nothing - Here's my " I ❤️ NY " playlist tidal.com/playlist/0e5...

Join me for a tutorial on @bonej.org 17 November 13h00 CET

Do you want to learn more about 25+ bioimage analysis tools, 100% for free? Sign up to attend Halfway to I2K today! tinyurl.com/Halfway-to-I... Wishing you'd submitted a tool or workshop but missed the deadline? GREAT NEWS, we just extended one week! Submit by Friday - airtable.com/app2zpB8d82r...

Guess who's back! 🦇 55 years missing: An international team led by the museum rediscovered the Turkestan long-eared bat in the Karakum Desert. Endemic species like 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘬𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 reveal how life adapts – and why protecting unique habitats matters. 🌏 📹 Christian Dietz #biodiversity #bats

Innovative Surfaces to Rapidly Load Bone Implants with Antibiotics Infectious complications are not uncommon after implant placement. The risk is higher in heavily contaminated wounds, which are particularly common in war zones such as Ukraine, ... weiterlesen

Wasn't there a job opening at your gaff @jytinevez.bsky.social ...?

Gutted to be missing this. Attending in spirit as a head shot staring out at you from this poster!

Come and join our team 🥰

#GloBIAS2025 is ongoing with amazing speaker lineups at Kobe city Beautiful location, amazing food and warm bioimage analysis community. What wlse does one need? 😊 Thanks to @globias.bsky.social for this event

It's totally normal for funders to provide restricted funds that are earmarked for specific activities. It's very unusual to extend restrictions to *all* the recipient's activities, beyond the scope of the funding. Today it's DEI, tomorrow it could be anything else.

ImageJ/Fiji users will be pleased to know that opening a DICOM stack with File > Import > Image Sequence results in correctly calibrated z pixel spacing. DICOM slice position (0020,0032) and not slice thickness (0018,0050) fields are used to determine the size of the image stack.

Analysis of 985(!!) baboon skulls' CT scan data from MorphoSource shows that >18% have slice spacing errors that propagate to downstream analyses-- an important cautionary tale on checking CT metadata vs. errors, and a goliath effort: peerj.com/articles/201...

It also speaks to the good scientific hygiene of taking some basic measurements from the physical specimens using tape, ruler or caliper, and including standard objects in the image to use as calibration sanity checks prior to later image analysis. DON'T ASSUME THE INSTRUMENT IS PROPERLY CALIBRATED

Heute ist Tag der Bibliotheken Habt ihr Lieblingsbibliotheken? Gerne mit Fotos in die Kommentare⬇️

Want to automate workflows in #FIJI? Don't know where to start? We (@lankylaste.bsky.social, Alicja Skórkowska and Sara Salgueiro Torres) have added a step-by-step tutorial to the wiki to get you started. Thanks @ctrue.bsky.social for adding! imagej.github.io/tutorials/ba...

#BiologyLetters Sound plays a key role in how animals communicate, but how does hearing develop alongside sound production in fish?https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0289 #ecology #neuroscience #developmentalbiology

“When we realised these jewels were only stolen to inflate the share price of a company whose entire value relies on the wholesale theft of other people’s art, we had no choice but grant immunity,” Genius from @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/l...

We just hit 10 workshops submitted, with almost two weeks to go! Help us get to 20 before the last-day frantic mad dash? Teach your favorite tool today!

Gotta admit, I'm pretty excited about this one. GPU-accelerated Local Thickness, for Tb.Th and Tb.Sp. This is the plugin in the @bonej.org logo, made MUCH faster by re-engineering for GPU parallelism. Drop me a PM to get a token to try it out for free.

The connectome of the entire male Drosophila central nervous system is out!! Acquired using FIB-SEM @ 8x8x8nm, we aligned 7.5 mio 2D images aligned into one seamless 3D volume, which was used to segment & proofread neurons and synapses. @hhmijanelia.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚀Join Helsinki BioImaging as an Image Analysis Specialist🖥️to support cross-disciplinary image analysis projects. If you love coding and are interested in working at the crossroads of computer science and biology, apply by 🗓️ November 15, 2025⤵️ jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #jobopening

Girl yes, DEXA scans ✨

The Royal Society should be protecting science, not Musk on.ft.com/46EWow2 | opinion

Job alert! We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? See also on the forum: forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

Surely the ND (no derivative works) bit of a CC-BY-ND licence precludes incorporating material from a paper into a model?

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News. Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Good bin run today! Scored a box set of the best Star Wars movies. Waste management is a big deal in 🇨🇭. Other places have a dump or a tip but it's classy here, we have a déchetterie with maybe 20 categories to sort into. Will try to list them all in a reply...

I’m happy to share some plugins I’ve been developping this summer: "Channels and Contrast" and LUTs Manager! I can’t find new bugs and ideas by now so I need your help to please test them in your machines and report bugs, feedbacks and ideas! forum.image.sc/t/looking-fo...

Really important perspective for funders (and participants) in risky exploratory endeavours.

The leftovers from last week's bœuf bourguignon. This is a 'marrow bone' after boiling out the adipose tissue for gravy and washing in lots of warm tap water, household detergents and a little chlorine bleach. Cortex & (glorious) trabeculae, growth plate 'scar', marrow cavity visible.